Garden Pictures...

[Mountain Heritage]

Anyone have pictures of their set ups for pole beans, peas, and cucumbers? Anyone ever grow cucumbers on a trellis or wire cage?

Think I am going to make a couple T.P.'s this year to try them.

[johncub7172]

Not yet. But going to try some tee-pee poles for my pickel patch. Pickels will grow good off of a chicken wire fence as well. Saves you from bending over picking. Look for some good gardening this year!

[cadetfarmer]

Mountain;
I don't have any pics, but I grow cukes, maters, and cantalopes on trellis every year.
The cukes and cantalopes do very well, I wish I could say I've done as well with tomatoes.

I also grow apple trees on an espellier, that works well also.

All of this saves a great deal of space, as well as keeping things off the ground.

Cadet Farmer

[Mountain Heritage]

Good to know cadetfarmer I am defiantely doing up some sort of trellis this year. Need to do a little more research about beans. Would like to try some that can dry down and be stored for winter, just the beans themself, crack them outta the pods. Make some cold bean salad in February from beans in the garden would be great! Hmmmmm....what about growing kidney beans - anyone ever tried that? Fresh beans from the garden in chillie in the winter?? SWEET!

[cubguy]

for my snaps I just took two of those green garden posts, one at each end of my row. Then I ran 3 strands of thicker wire from one post tho the other.

[red211]

Originally Posted by Mountain Heritage

Anyone have pictures of their set ups for pole beans, peas, and cucumbers? Anyone ever grow cucumbers on a trellis or wire cage?

Think I am going to make a couple T.P.'s this year to try them.

I got a cow panel, I think a 16' one, maybe 12, set two tobacco sticks in the ground, put the end on the ground and flex it into an upside down u with sticks on the other end where you can walk under it.

[Mountain Heritage]

Originally Posted by red211

I got a cow panel, I think a 16' one, maybe 12, set two tobacco sticks in the ground, put the end on the ground and flex it into an upside down u with sticks on the other end where you can walk under it.

Ummmm...yeah, sure! You do realize your talking to a fool Canadian who doesn't smoke, has never seen a tabacco plant nor a "stick"...know about cows, but I am sorry i don't know what a cow panel is??

[Conig]

I know this is an older post, but I never get this far into the Forums - always get stuck looking at the Cub and Implement posts. I hand tilled (@300 sq ft) of soil and clay last spring at a house that was new to us then. The photos are from last summer when we were in full bloom. In one of the photos you may be able to see the two wooden stakes with white string strung between them. That supported our cukes without any problem. I plant bush beans so I didn't need to worry about a trellis or support for them.

We also put in a chicken house (4 hens) so I included a pic for fun. Since this was taken we've opened up the coop area so that the enclosed run is about twice the size seen in this photo. A winter's worth of chicken manure is enriching the garden soil right now.

I'm waiting on parts for a 3 point hitch assembly for my 104, and still need the brinly adapter. I've a plow and disc harrow I'm picking up in a couple of weeks. Hopefully this year I'll be able to expand the size of the garden some.

Hope this is helpful.
Conig

[robpa]

It is gettin close to time for plantin. Just ordered the onion plants and potato seed stock. I plan to use the Cubs a lot more this year and semi retire the Massey, tho I may have to get her goin with the 60 inch tiller. I grow for market and the cubs are gonna earn their keep.

[_DX3_]

I've been wanting to get a chicken coop about that size too. Do you have to move it around or does it stay in one place? Obviously I need to read up on keeping laying hens.